Hi,
during our GSoC project I've noticed pcan and pwcl wifi drivers in illumos-gate
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/pcwl/pcwl.c
for "Lucent/PRISM-II 802.11b NICS"
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/pcan/pcan.c
for "Cisco-Aironet 802.11b NICS"
As you can see these are very old chipsets and the drivers do not support WPA
and 802.11g.
Is anyone still using these? in particular the pcan for Cisco-Aironet which is
apparently more recent.
I am asking this because we are planning to clean all the old ioctls IDs and
their associated routines used by wificonfig.
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/inet/wifi_ioctl.h#50
(WL_* for IDs)
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/net80211/net80211_ioctl.c#1265
(wifi_cfg_* for kernel routines)
These IDs are implemented directly in pcan and pcwl, since ieee80211_ioctlt is
not used! and callbacks to net80211 module are only used in the brussels
framework. (dladm)
I have already managed to delete old bits from these two drivers, making
compatible only with the new API so that they compile correctly after my changes
on net80211 module.
However they don't support registering the net80211 door for wifi event
reporting which is now required for all wifi drivers. This can be added, but i
would like to have some feedback before doing unnecessary work.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Enrico
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